71 Loughborough Road, Kirkcaldy

71 Loughborough Road in Kirkcaldy is a large pair of houses built in the early 20th century, featuring two stories and an attic with four bays. The exterior is made of bull-faced squared and snecked rubble, complemented by contrasting red sandstone ashlar dressings, with rubble on the sides and rear. The building showcases stop-chamfered, moulded arrises and stone mullions.

The principal elevation is symmetrical, with broad outer gables that include full-height, shallow canted four-light windows, a first-floor cill cornice, and a blocking course, along with small windows in the finialled gableheads. The recessed center bays are slightly lower and feature a full-width tiled porch supported by square-section, fluted pillars and Japanese-style railings on ashlar walls. The doorways are moulded with two-leaf part-glazed timber doors. There are two bipartite windows on the first floor, with a central stack above flanked closely by original, small, pitch-roofed bipartite dormer windows.

The west elevation has its ground floor obscured, but the first floor has windows to the center and right, flanking a tall stack that pierces the eaves line. The east elevation also has an obscured ground floor, with first-floor windows to the center and left, and two wallhead stacks. The north elevation features symmetrical fenestration and a flat-roofed extension projecting to the left at No 73.

Throughout the building, the timber sash and case windows have a multi-pane glazing pattern in the upper sashes over two-pane lower sashes. The roofs are covered with red tiles, and the ashlar stacks are coped and battered, with cans and ashlar-coped skews featuring gablet skewputts and stone finials. There are cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.

Inside No 73, there are decorative plasterwork cornices, a panelled ceiling, and a timber fireplace with a mutule cornice in the south room. The hall features dado panelling, and there is a timber staircase with corniced and ball-finialled newels. The interior of No 71 was not seen in 1997.